Developer 911 in 714

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:



I will ask around, though, the best answer I got was to try a pool
supply, but that went nowhere.

Hmm, I asked (in the UK) at a local chemists if I could buy a winchester
(the glass bottle for holding chemicals, not the rifle) and they did not
know what one was!

Fortuately you seem to be able to mail order chemicals and ID-11 and a few
others is available in town (just).

Pete

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Randall Ainsworth wrote:
In article , joe mama
wrote:

i have two rolls of 120 i need to develop tonight, but didn't get to the
store intime to get any new developer! i forgot that my batch of d76 has
gone bad. i also have an old bottle of hc-110, but the stuff has turned
pretty red. i do have some s sulfite, but don't know if that would help the
hc-110.

if anyone lives in north oc, and has a small amount of either hc-110, or
d-76 (i develop 1:1) that i could buy from them tonight, i'd really
appreciate it. bad planning and too much time on the shoot did me in, so i
am at the mercy of any kind souls.

Why would you want to use HC-110? That crap is like battery acid to
film.

I dunno. Not bad at 1:1 for PlusX.

"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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joe mama wrote:

i have two rolls of 120 i need to develop tonight, but didn't get to the
store intime to get any new developer!

Well, the advice is a bit late, but a respectable developer can
be made from pretty common substances: Vitamin C, Coffee, Tylenol...

Tylenol even sounds like a developer......

In article , Geoffrey S.
Mendelson wrote:

If your only choices are HC-110 with some creative dilution, a C-41
(chromogenic) film, or digital photographs converted to black and white
in photoshop, your appreciation might change.

I went digital a few years back, so my darkroom days are over. I spent
enough time in there (former professional). But if you like golf ball
sized grain, HC-110 will do the trick.

In article , joe mama
wrote:

I'd like to thank both of you for posting the most ridiculous responses to a
specific question I have ever dealt with in usenet. Your help was
appreciated.

You've obviously never used HC-110.

"Randall Ainsworth" wrote in message
...
In article , joe mama
wrote:

I'd like to thank both of you for posting the most ridiculous responses
to a
specific question I have ever dealt with in usenet. Your help was
appreciated.

You've obviously never used HC-110.

even as trolls go, you are incredibly weak.

In article , joe mama
wrote:

even as trolls go, you are incredibly weak.

I'm not a troll, and you've obviously never used HC-110.

"Randall Ainsworth" wrote in message
...
In article , joe mama
wrote:

even as trolls go, you are incredibly weak.

I'm not a troll, and you've obviously never used HC-110.

news flash to the idiot...i have used hc-110 hundreds of times, with nothing
but spectacular results. i am not alone, and therefor you can go bacck under
the bridge. i don't understand why i am still entertaining a dialogue with a
moron.

have a nice life, and i'll assume you don't use hc-110 any more; unless you
need to recore a battery.

In article , joe mama
wrote:

news flash to the idiot...i have used hc-110 hundreds of times, with nothing
but spectacular results. i am not alone, and therefor you can go bacck under
the bridge. i don't understand why i am still entertaining a dialogue with a
moron.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

have a nice life, and i'll assume you don't use hc-110 any more; unless you
need to recore a battery.

Back in my film days I only used it a couple of times because it was so
bad. D-76 1:1 was the order of the day until T-Max came out and I
switched to T-Max developer.

Randall Ainsworth wrote:
In article , joe mama
wrote:

i have two rolls of 120 i need to develop tonight, but didn't get to the
store intime to get any new developer! i forgot that my batch of d76 has
gone bad. i also have an old bottle of hc-110, but the stuff has turned
pretty red. i do have some s sulfite, but don't know if that would help the
hc-110.

if anyone lives in north oc, and has a small amount of either hc-110, or
d-76 (i develop 1:1) that i could buy from them tonight, i'd really
appreciate it. bad planning and too much time on the shoot did me in, so i
am at the mercy of any kind souls.

Why would you want to use HC-110? That crap is like battery acid to
film.

I used it for years on 4147 Plus-X and 4164 Tri-X. It worked just fine. I
mostly used Dilution-B which is somewhat like D-76.

Sulphuric Acid would almost not be a suitable component of a developer
unless you want to use something really exotic like

Titanium trichloride (20% solution) 75 ml
EDTA (tetra sodium salt) 100 gm
Sodium Acetate, anhydrous 20 gm
Potassium bromide 4 gm
water to 1000 ml
Hydrochloric acid to pH 4.0

Try 5 minutes at 20C. You may wish to dilute this and use a bit more bromide.

Possibly sulphuric acid could be substituted for HCl, but why risk it?

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